Interview by Charlotte McLeod; article text by Scott Tibballs.
Lobo Tiggre, CEO of Louis James LLC, says that market watchers need to keep an eye on silver as the gold price continues to climb.
Speaking with the Investing News Network at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium in Vancouver, Tiggre said he believes the yellow metal has broken out of a rut and is on its way up because it is sustaining its higher value.
“I wanted to see US$1,400 (per ounce), and sustained above US$1,400, and that (would) signal a real shift where we’re broken out of the rut, and that is what we’ve seen,” he said.
Gold’s more industrially inclined precious metal comrade, silver, potentially has an even brighter future.
“It’s well known … how silver tends to lag gold. Gold moves first and then silver more than catches up,” Tiggre said. “If gold goes bananas, silver will go bananas — no question in my mind, and it will go more bananas than gold.”
Tiggre’s own unproven theory is that silver goes bananas with more gusto because the conditions that can drive gold upwards can also drive industrial metals like copper downwards, and most of the silver mined in the world is a by-product of copper mining.
“We have that now: copper under pressure, global economic slowdown, people are worried. Copper producers, if they cut back, that massively cuts back the silver supply. And if that happens when silver prices are rising, you can see silver prices really go nuts.”
He also offered his thoughts on the best performing stocks in his portfolio (silver) and worst performing (uranium, though he remains optimistic about the energy metal’s fundamentals).
Watch the full interview above for more of Tiggre’s thoughts on the current commodity and investing environment. Our full playlist for the Sprott event can be found on YouTube.
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